File:Clevelandart 1990.246.jpg
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[edit]Seated Figure Wearing a Skin
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Seated Figure Wearing a Skin |
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This type of image-showing a human clothed in a sacrificial victim’s skin, visible around the mouth and wrists-is one of the most awesome created by Mesoamerican artists. The figure represents the deity Xipe Totec or a human impersonator. Among the later Aztecs, Xipe was associated with fertility, rain, and renewal. Perhaps the wearer, upon shedding the skin, was conceived as a sprout emerging from a withered husk. Xipe also had military connections. |
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| Date | 600 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Earthenware, slip | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 43.3 x 29.2 x 28.7 cm (17 1/16 x 11 1/2 x 11 5/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Art of the Americas |
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1990.246 |
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| Place of creation | Mexico, Gulf Coast, 7th-11th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.246 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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